[DerkontheOS]

Quote: Originally Posted by JoshC1977

After more extensive testing on coach schemes, I have drawn the following conclusions: - Just stay away from the balanced offensive scheme. The CPU will call the same plays over and over again....I think that this is the one that is most affected by the regular team playbooks not being as well-developed. I thought for a while that this was the run scheme until I had a couple of games where the CPU was just calling dives/4-verts the whole time. - Schemes are more about formations/concepts used rather than run/pass ratio. Though, naturally, certain formations/concepts are more run-heavy or pass-heavy. - You do not need to use generic playbooks....frankly, I recommend staying away from them as you lose some of a team's identity - Most of the schemes really look to be mis-labeled. Here is my take on each one: Balanced: Stay away! Vertical: run-oriented offenses will use this... Power Run: good for teams that run two back sets on occassion and short, controlled passing games...closer to West Coast. West Coast: this one is really the balanced scheme...lots of formations/concepts used. Try playing against the Saints offense when they are set to this scheme...you really have to be thinking about mis-matches the whole time....very tough to stop. Zone Run: This is your vertical scheme. Lots of shots, verts....basically, anything that has receivers running deep. Spread: 90% of the time, teams will be in the gun or pistol The following are my suggestions and what I will use. Feel free to change these around based on the above descriptions if you so desire. Bears: Zone Run Bengals: West Coast Bills: Vertical Broncos: West Coast Browns: Vertical Bucs: Vertical Cardinals: West Coast Chargers: Power Run Chiefs: Spread Colts: Zone Run Cowboys: Vertical Dolphins: Spread Eagles: Spread Falcons: Power Run 49ers: Spread Giants: Spread Jags: West Coast Jets: Power Run Lions: Power Run Packers: Power Run Panthers: Vertical Patriots: West Coast Raiders: Spread Rams: Vertical Ravens: Zone Run Redskins: West Coast or Spread Saints: West Coast Seahawks: Vertical Steelers: West Coast Texans: Zone Run Titans: Vertical Vikings: Vertical To implement these, you can either do a 32 team CFM or the following: Take control of a team's coach within CFM (hit R3 on PS4 with the CFM menus); select that team's coach....do not create a custom coach. Go to his scheme menu and change the offensive scheme (do not alter the playbook). Then, go to the far right-hand screen in the CFM menus and retire the coach. The coach will remain, you will only get the little story ("He will be missed...blah blah blah") and the changes will stick and you can do this over and over. I suggest doing this at the start of a CFM and then saving it as a "base" CFM file. This now complete....that wraps up the work I plan on doing for this game.

Do you change defensive playbooks? Also I'm curious what the defensive schemes effect.